Survey of federal and state legislation, characteristics of students with exceptional learning needs, and strategies for inclusive teaching.

Survey of federal and state legislation, characteristics of students with exceptional learning needs, and strategies for inclusive teaching.

Various conceptions of creativity. Methods for eliciting creative thinking from students, application of creative problem solving strategies, and exploration of personal creativity.

Why do some countries hold elections while others do not? Why are some states able to provide security and welfare to their citizens while others struggle to do so? Why are some countries plagued by violence while others enjoy internal peace? These questions have long animated the field of comparative politics and are among the several of which we will explore this semester.

This course will provide students with a firm foundation in the sub-field of comparative politics, preparing them for further analysis of politics around the world and across contexts. The course has two main objectives:

1. To familiarize students with the importance of theory and research design for describing, explaining, and understanding political processes. After taking this course, students should be able to distinguish between different theoretical explanations and evaluate the merit of evidence used to support them.

2. To provide students with an overview of key topics and debates in comparative politics. Students should be able to understand the basis of these debates as well as take and support positions on them.

This course has additional cost. Learn more at online.louisiana.edu/get-started/tuition-cost. This section is reserved for students in the fully online programs of CJUO, INFO, GSO, HPW, HSA, RN-to-BSN & MGMO.

This course has additional cost. Learn more at online.louisiana.edu/get-started/tuition-cost. This section is reserved for students in the fully online programs of GSO, HPW, HSA, RN-to-BSN, INFO & MGMO.

The Students of History Moodle page provides useful information for all undergraduate and graduate students working in the field of History at UL Lafayette.

Because each generation borrows the Earth from its children's children, we need to learn how to make the wisest choices for nature. Costa Rica is known as the Godfather of Ecotourism; any search engine lists it as the top destination in the world. We'll be ecotourists, sustainable tourists, adventure tourists, green tourists, responsible tourists and explore pristine beaches, rainforests, ziplines, businesses and attractions that bring in 1.4billion USD. In your ten unforgettable days abroad, learn about Costa Rica's tourism economy and how companies maintain nature's integrity while producing revenue. All students will bring an idea home to help in keeping our planet beautiful and business thriving forever.

The Renaissance has long been fascinated by many themes including religion and ritual, archaeology, art and civilian, the natural world to tales of the monstrous and murder through tales and images of terrible things. Florence has been the home and has served as a source of inspiration for artists such as Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Giotto, the poet Dante, among others. Like Florence’s great artists of the past, students will be guided by their individual interests while examining and using Florence’s landscape, museums and culture as sources for creative exploration and research.

You will visit some of the most important museums in Florence and they will serve as our classroom including the Uffizi Gallery, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Museo degli Argenti Bargello Museum, Boboli Gardens, Academia, the Fondazione Bisonte, and the Armadillo Atelier to study prints, drawings, and paintings first hand. These locations will serve as sources of inspiration allowing you to develop a greater awareness of the role of drawing and the print has as an investigative process in the development of creative work and it’s use as an expressive means of communication. Students develop a site-responsive studio practice in relationship to the cultural landscape of Florence. We will consider the unique identity of particular sites and structures, land use, and use our experiences on-location to inspire and frame ideas for our work. We will work both in the studio and on-site in the city. Practical and didactic learning will include a complement of methodologies: texts, lectures, films, demonstrations, site visits, field work, and travel to Venice and other sites outside of Florence.

Students will develop a suite of prints through a series of prompts. Ultimately, all students will have the power to make independent work that explores their own visual and media interests. This course will give students a greater awareness of the role of drawing as an investigative process in the development of creative work and it’s use as an expressive means of communication. This course will be divided between working on creative work on location in Florence and utilizing the cities world class museums and galleries and individual work outside of class. Students will also learn how to utilize a sketchbook/journal in the development of creative research, the documentation of the city, and a source for the stimulation and development of ideas.